Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to employ
Participle: emploied
Gerund: employing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | employ |
| you | employ |
| he;she;it | emploies |
| we | employ |
| you | employ |
| they | employ |
Perfect
| I | have emploied |
| you | have emploied |
| he;she;it | has emploied |
| we | have emploied |
| you | have emploied |
| they | have emploied |
Past
| I | emploied |
| you | emploied |
| he;she;it | emploied |
| we | emploied |
| you | emploied |
| they | emploied |
Pluperfect
| I | had emploied |
| you | had emploied |
| he;she;it | had emploied |
| we | had emploied |
| you | had emploied |
| they | had emploied |
Future
| I | will employ |
| you | will employ |
| he;she;it | will employ |
| we | will employ |
| you | will employ |
| they | will employ |
Future Perfect
| I | will have emploied |
| you | will have emploied |
| he;she;it | will have emploied |
| we | will have emploied |
| you | will have emploied |
| they | will have emploied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | employ |
| you | employ |
| he;she;it | employ |
| we | employ |
| you | employ |
| they | employ |
Perfect
| I | have emploied |
| you | have emploied |
| he;she;it | have emploied |
| we | have emploied |
| you | have emploied |
| they | have emploied |
Imperfect
| I | emploied |
| you | emploied |
| he;she;it | emploied |
| we | emploied |
| you | emploied |
| they | emploied |
Pluperfect
| I | had emploied |
| you | had emploied |
| he;she;it | had emploied |
| we | had emploied |
| you | had emploied |
| they | had emploied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would employ |
| you | would employ |
| he;she;it | would employ |
| we | would employ |
| you | would employ |
| they | would employ |
Perfect
| I | would have emploied |
| you | would have emploied |
| he;she;it | would have emploied |
| we | would have emploied |
| you | would have emploied |
| they | would have emploied |
Imperative
| you | employ |
| we | Let's employ |
| you | employ |
Verbs conjugated like 'employ'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'employ'
imploy,
deploy,
emplore,
empty,
imply,
ploy,
reemploy,
unemploy,
accloy,
alloy,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- engage
- take, place, contract, hire, procure, occupy
- apply
- exercise, adopt, operate, expend, utilize, manipulate, play
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1460, from M.Fr.
employer, from O.Fr.
empleier, from L.
implicare "enfold, involve, be connected with," from
in- "in" +
plicare "to fold" see ply (v.)). Sense of "hire, engage" first recorded in Eng. 1584, from "involve in a particular purpose." Imply, which is the same word, retains more of the original sense.
Employee (mainly U.S.) is attested from 1850, from Fr.
employé (fem.
employeé), pp. of
employer.
2. From late Middle English emploien, imploien, emplien (“to apply to a specific purpose”), from Anglo-Norman emploier, Old French emploiier (“to entangle, fabricate, to make use of”), ultimately from Latin implicāre (“to infold, entangle, involve, engage”), from in- (“in”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of imply and implicate. See: Anglo-Norman '
emploier', Old French '
emploiier', Latin '
implicō'.
Verbs referencing "employ"
Ido employar.
Sample Sentences
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How I remained on deck, staring about me, until we came alongside the dock, and how, though I had had as many eyes as Argus, I should have had them all wide open, and all employed on new objects—are topics which I will not prolong this chapter to discuss. Neither will I more than hint at my foreigner-like mistake in supposing that a party of most active persons, who [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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‘Profiting by the experience I had gained in the other cases, I omitted several steps of the process before employed, and commenced at once with the finger language. Taking, therefore, several articles having short names, such as key, cup, mug, &c., and with Laura for an auxiliary, I sat down, and taking his [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] stonemason 's saw, greatly favour those opportunities of intercourse—hurried and brief no doubt, but opportunities still—which these several kinds of work, by rendering it necessary for men to be employed very near to each other, and often side by side, without any barrier or partition between them, in their very nature present. A visitor, too, requires to reason and reflect a little, before the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and pictures. The prisoners wear a parti-coloured dress; and those who are sentenced to hard labour, work at nail-making, or stone-cutting. When I was there, the latter class of labourers were employed upon the stone for a new custom-house in course of erection at Boston. They appeared to shape it skilfully and with expedition, though there were very few among them (if any ) who had not acquired [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The women, all in one large room, were employed in making light clothing, for New Orleans and the Southern States. They did their work in silence like the men; and like them were over-looked by the person contracting for their labour, or by some [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] trinkets as come within the compass of their means. Supposing it confined within reasonable limits, I would always encourage this kind of pride, as a worthy element of self-respect, in any person I employed; and should no more be deterred from doing so, because some wretched female referred her fall to a love of dress, than I would allow my construction of the real intent and meaning of the Sabbath to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] is fully investigated; and if good ground of complaint be shown to exist against them, they are removed, and their occupation is handed over to some more deserving person. There are a few children employed in these factories, but not many. The laws of the State forbid their working more than nine months in the year, and require that they be educated during the other three. For this purpose there are [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] better cared for, or attended with greater gentleness and consideration. The weekly charge in this establishment for each female patient is three dollars, or twelve shillings English; but no girl employed by any of the corporations is ever excluded for want of the means of payment. That they do not very often want the means, may be gathered from the fact, that in July, 1841, no fewer than nine [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] subscribe to circulating libraries. Thirdly, they have got up among themselves a periodical called THE LOWELL OFFERING, ‘A repository of original articles, written exclusively by females actively employed in the mills,’—which is duly printed, published, and sold; and whereof I brought away from Lowell four hundred good solid pages, which I have read from beginning to end.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] riding about an hour in this way, the whole party made a precipitate and tumultuous descent into a barn-yard belonging to a large farming establishment. Not a soul was in sight, all the hands being employed in the fields; but, as the barn stood conspicuously and plainly square across the road, it was evident that their journey in that direction had reached a decided finale.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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employed. For now. -Okay. Okay, for now. -Finally! I feel...
(72 Hours)
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Hey, uh... I feel like I 'm, uh, employed.
(72 Hours)